The Governors speak: You better believe we built this, baby

posted at 9:11 pm on August 28, 2012 by Erika Johnsen

Earlier today at a campaign stop in Iowa, President Obama took a sarcastic swipe at the Republican National Convention’s economic agenda.

“This week in Tampa, my opponents will offer you their agenda. It should be a pretty entertaining show,” he said at a campaign rally at Iowa State University. “And I’m sure they’ll have some wonderful things to say about me.

“But what you won’t hear from them is a path forward that meets the challenges of our time.”

Obama asserted that the message Republicans will unveil in Tampa will be laced with the top-down economic philosophy that failed America in the past decade.

Uh huh. Well, Mr. President, a whole gamut of Republican governors did indeed take to the stage to refute your erroneous “top-down” baloney this evening, in the knowledge that a huge, meddlesome bureaucracy that thinks it knows best and taxes success is the real definition of “top-down.” And who better poised to talk about the successes of creating economies actually grown from the “middle-out” by rolling back red tape, lowering taxes, encouraging entrepreneurs, and realizing that individuals not government are the real job creators, than Republican governors seeing micro-successes within their own laboratories of democracy.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich came out swinging, getting the crowd going with some real talk about job creation and the damper that Washington is putting on Americans’ business endeavors: “We need a new partner in Washington. This relationship is just not working,” he said to cheers and applause. Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin added a little rural flavor to the proceedings, decrying President Obama’s big government policies: “We know better, and as we say in Oklahoma, that dog won’t hunt!” Heh. And my homestate governor, Bob McDonnell of Virginia, criticized the President’s “deficit of leadership and results” and the sluggish bureaucracy he’s expanded, including the “EPA: The Employment Prevention Agency.” The governors are killing it tonight, and they’re still going — here’s the livestream in case you’re missing out!

Update: Here’s the video of Kasich, just lettin’ it fly with no reservations — love it.

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So…tonight we “choose respect over love”. right after Anne Romney pitches love. Both decent speeches in different ways, but did they bother to review them before putting these two messages together on prime time?

So…tonight we “choose respect over love”. right after Anne Romney pitches love. Both decent speeches in different ways, but did they bother to review them before putting these two messages together on prime time?

BryanS on August 28, 2012 at 10:42 PM

Yeah,but there were two entirely different contexts for the word ‘love’…He used it more as a synonym to ‘like’, the idea being that it’s more important to be respected than loved/liked , and that popularity is fleeting, unlike th respect that is hard is earned…Ann was talking about a different kind of love, andi it makes sense…

Taken at the D-Day memorial 6/6 – you know, the one where they forgot to invite the Queen of England, who is the only living head of state who actually served during World War II. The one where Gordom Brown slipped and called it Obama Beach instead of Omaha Beach? And before the Obamas jetted off to France where they had decided in advance not to accept President and First Lady Sarkozy’s invitation to dinner:
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Christie: Mitt Romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the debacle of putting the world’s greatest health care system in the hands of federal bureaucrats and putting those bureaucrats between an American citizen and her doctor. – live video

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Christie: We need politicians to care more about doing something and less about being something – live video

I would have thought the second century ended at the country’s bicentennial.

Al in St. Lou on August 29, 2012 at 1:03 AM

the expression ‘American century’ refers strictly to the US domination in the 20th century, economically, militarily, financially, from an innovation-stand point, and in every other way…a lot of historians, social and political analysts refer to the 20th century as ‘the American century’….according to most the 21st century (i say it’s arguable) will be the Chinese century…Christie was referring to that, that we can be again a dominant force and turn the 21st century into a second American century…

Was proud to have Kasich representing my district in the 90s, am just as proud to have him as my governor today. Wanted to vote for him in the 2000 primary but cast an oh-well vote for Alan Keyes when Kasich dropped out before Ohio.

For the first time in my adult life, I can say I am proud to be from the State of Ohio….and the VP went to MY university, Miami (founded in 1809, long before that OTHER Miami and the state of Florida was even around). Our Governor is kicking **s and taking names. Now, more than ever we need to take this country back from the progs, libs, commies, and socialists….